Unlike hurricanes in the Atlantic, typhoons are not typically given human names. Instead, they're named after animals, plants and places. (Occasionally a human name gets thrown in too.) Neoguri means raccoon dog in Korean. Even though they have different naming systems, hurricanes and typhoons aren’t different: they’re both large storms with strong sustained winds. The only real difference between a cyclone, typhoon and hurricane is where they occur in the world. The word hurricane is primarily used for Atlantic storms, typhoon for storms that occur in the northwestern Pacific and cyclone for the south Pacific and Indian oceans.

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